Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) · 27 May 2021
Azienda Usl della Romagna
Non-compliance with general data processing principles
Fine€120,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante)
- Decided
- 27 May 2021
- Country
- Italy
- Sector
- Health Care
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2021/IT/040
What happened
The Italian DPA (Garante) fined the Romagna health authority €120,000 for sharing data about a patient's abortion with their general practitioner, against the will of the patient. Investigation revealed that the sharing of such patient data without a legal basis affected 48 other data subjects.
Summary from the GDPRhub page for this decision, written by its volunteers, not by Fino. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Rules involved
- Art. 5Principles relating to processing of personal data5(1)(f)Read →
- Art. 9Processing of special categories of personal dataRead →
- Data principles
- Special categories
Sources
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